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Gross incompetence by the highest rated officials at every position for the full season?

I know, it's not what you would expect, is it? Which leads to grumblings of...

And whose "bias"? Any proof whatsoever?

I'm afraid the evidence is all circumstantial. We haven't found the photos of the refs at a Steelers tailgate party, if that's what you're after. Given a bunch of sketchy judgement calls, that could just as easily have not been called at all (and which usually wouldn't be called), the refs overwhelmingly made the calls that would hurt the Seahawks the most while simultaneously ignoring obvious penalties by the Steelers. The two consecutive offsides come to mind, the second of which resulted in a sack of Hasselbeck. Or how about the egregious hold that allowed Parker to burn off his record-breaking run? Steelers can point to one or two things that didn't go their way. The lop-sidedness of what happened is the problem, not the fact that one or two bad calls occurred. This is what Seahawks fans----and most non-Steelers fans----saw during the Super Bowl.

The two consecutive offsides come to mind

Never happened. The DE just had the snap count timed so well that he looked like he was offsides to the untrained eye. Hasslebeck could have picked up an easy 5 yards/free play if he'd have used a hard count after the first one.

Or how about the egregious hold that allowed Parker to burn off his record-breaking run?

This is three days after the Super Bowl, and this is the first time I've heard anyone even suggest there was holding on that play. You're really starting to scrape the bottom of the barrel now.

Again, no call against the Seahawks was anywhere near as egregious as the referee incorrectly overturning Hasslebeck's fumble because he didn't properly understand the "down by contact" rule.

The two consecutive offsides come to mind, the second of which resulted in a sack of Hasselbeck. Or how about the egregious hold that allowed Parker to burn off his record-breaking run?

I did not see any of those....I have no problem with the holds. To me it looked like holding. There was also separation created by the push off in the end-zone which is textbook pass interference. Would every official call it? No. But that's not the standard. A violation of the rule is the standard and they appeared to be to me. BTW, I'm from Atlanta with no dog in the fight.